Sun Life Financial Peer Support Scholarship

The Sun Life Financial Scholarship is open to any post-secondary student with a spinal cord injury who is living in Canada, and who is also a peer support volunteer with one of SCI/CPA corporate members. To be eligible, the applicant will need a letter of support from his/her corporate member stating that he/she is a peer support volunteer.

Amount: $500

Number Available: 3

Deadline: TBD

Criteria

The Sun Life Financial Scholarship is open to any post-secondary student with a spinal cord injury who is living in Canada, and who is also a peer support volunteer with one of SCI/CPA corporate members. To be eligible, the applicant will need a letter of support from his/her corporate member stating that he/she is a peer support volunteer.

Applicants must meet all of the following criterial to be eligible.

The applicant must be a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant.

The applicant must be attending, or will be attending, a recognized post-secondary institution in Canada.

The applicant must have a spinal cord injury.

The applicant has provided a copy of his/her most recent two years of transcripts (unless the applicant has not been in school for the past five years).

For the Sun Life Financial Peer Support Scholarship, the applicant must be engaged as a peer volunteer with one of the SCI Canada Federation Corporate Members and provide a letter of support from the organization